How I’m Leveraging the Amazon S3 Service
How I’m Leveraging the Amazon S3 Service
by andre · December 6, 2018
How do I use it Today?
Amazon S3 is cloud storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web-services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
Amazon S3 allows me to securely (and inexpensively) store and archive my data. With the number of devices that I own, and the number of times a year I reload Windows, having my critical documents, pictures and files securely stored via Amazon gives me piece of mind.
How do I use it today?
The Tool
In order to get the most control of what I want to do inside of Amazon S3, I use a command line tool called S3 Sync by SprightlySoft. You can leverage a 60 day free license to see if it suits your needs, then (as I willingly did), you can pay $29.99 for a permanent license that provides support for a year, as well as all in-version upgrades of the application.
You also need to have an active account for Amazon Web Services, so that you have your security credentials available.
The Script
First I start out by setting command line variables that I use in the event I don’t run this batch file interactively (backup.bat documents, for example):
:: Command Line Actions if “%1” == “documents” set backuptype=documents if “%1” == “documents” goto execute i “%1” == “desktop” set backuptype=desktop if “%1” == “desktop” goto execute if “%1” == “utilities” set backuptype=utilities if “%1” == “utilities” goto execute if “%1” == “music” set backuptype=music if “%1” == “music” goto execute
Next, I use the old DOS choice.exe to provide me with an interactive menu system:
cls echo. echo What do you want to backup? echo. echo [A] Exit echo [B] Desktop echo [C] Documents echo [D] Music echo [E] Videos echo [F] Utilities echo [G] Installation Files echo. “c:Google~1Utilit~1choicechoice” /c:abcdefg /n Please make a selection… cls echo. if errorlevel 7 set backuptype=installations if errorlevel 7 goto execute if errorlevel 6 set backuptype=utilities if errorlevel 6 goto execute if errorlevel 5 set backuptype=videos if errorlevel 6 goto execute if errorlevel 4 set backuptype=music if errorlevel 4 goto execute if errorlevel 3 set backuptype=documents if errorlevel 3 goto execute if errorlevel 2 set backuptype=desktop if errorlevel 2 goto execute if errorlevel 1 goto SkipAll
Based on the selected option above, I set a variable called %backuptype% that is the key to the rest of the script. Next, I set a whole bunch of variables that are critical to the execution:
:execute set “GoogleDrive=C:Google Drive” set executable=“%GoogleDrive%UtilitiesS3syncS3Sync.exe” set ssexecutable=“%GoogleDrive%UtilitiesS3SyncShadowSpawn-x64.exe” set awsaccesskeyid=??? set awssecretaccesskey=??? set s3synclicense=??? set requestendpoint=s3.amazonaws.com set syncdirection=upload set showtransferprogress=True set s3folderkeyname=“” set outputlevel=1 set overwriteexistingexistinglogfile=True set deletes3itemswherenotinlocallist=False set s3folderkeyname=“” set localfoldrpath=“%GoogleDrive%%backuptype%” set bucketname=sanz-andre-backup-%backuptype% set logfilepath=“%GoogleDrive%S3_backup_%backuptype%.log”
if “%backuptype%” == “music” set ExcludeLocalFoldersRegularExpression=“.*iTunes.*” if “%backuptype%” == “documents” set ssmappeddrive=I: if “%backuptype%” == “desktop” set ssmappeddrive=Z: if “%backuptype%” == “utilities” set ssmappeddrive=L: if “%backuptype%” == “music” set ssmappeddrive=J:
With the use of Shadow Spawn, I’m able to backup everything I want without the concern of files being open and not backed up. I set different mapped drives based on %backuptype%, because this script is run as an automated backup solution for many things, and can be run multiple times with different command line options, so this prevents errors from trying to shadow the same drive letter.
Next we execute:
Title Backing up %backuptype% in other window… %ssexecutable% %localfoldrpath% %ssmappeddrive% %executable% ^ -AWSAccessKeyId %awsaccesskeyid% ^ -AWSSecretAccessKey %awssecretaccesskey% ^ -LicenseKey %s3synclicense% ^ -RequestEndpoint %requestendpoint% ^ -SyncDirection %syncdirection% ^ -LocalFolderPath %ssmappeddrive% ^ -BucketName %bucketname% ^ -S3FolderKeyName %s3folderkeyname% ^ -OutputLevel %outputlevel% ^ -LogFilePath %logfilepath% ^ -OverwriteExistingLogFile %overwriteexistingexistinglogfile% ^ -ShowTransferProgress %showtransferprogress% ^ -ExcludeLocalFilesRegularExpression %ExcludeLocalFilesRegularExpression% ^ -ExcludeLocalFoldersRegularExpression %ExcludeLocalFoldersRegularExpression% ^ -DeleteS3ItemsWhereNotInLocalList %deletes3itemswherenotinlocallist%
Finally, I add a variable that will popup the created log file in the event that the batch file is run interactively:
:: Command Line Actions if “%1” == “” “%GoogleDrive%UtilitiesNotepad++notepad++.exe” “%GoogleDrive%S3_%backuptype%.log” :skipall :endend
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